Wednesday, December 05, 2018

The Blaze and CRTV announced on Monday that they were merging to create Blaze Media. Both say the move will allow the new conservative entity to reach 165 million people via television, online and on social media. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

The Blaze was founded by former Fox News host Glenn Beck in 2011, not long after he parted ways with the network, while CRTV was founded in 2014 by current Fox News host Mark Levin, who also hosts a nationally syndicated radio program.

This is supposed to be the alternative to ABCNNBCBS? They might as well have called it Gatekeeper Media and given Jordan Peterson a show.

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Dang dude, you're taking us on a ride! "Don't follow this cat, stay a way from that group of rabble, avoid these folks...." I'm liking this. I would have gone full in with the Peterson fan club were it not for you. I'm also noticing how the Paglia commentary caught your eye (she dropped the first red pill on me before I ever knew anything about a red pill). Thanx!

I knew it was fake the moment I saw Roaming Millennial on there, she has no opinions of her own, just repeats things said by Peterson or Fox News while ruthlessly monetizing her looks as thots do. Now if only these CRTV ads would go away...

Malkin leaving tells me everything I need to know about this endeavor.

And this really puts Levin lower on my toleration list (not that he was that high on it to begin with). I distinctly remember him taking shots at Cheeto Jesus for legitimate reasons. And now they're partnering up? Both he and Beck must really be desperate for cash to try something like this.

I wouldn't say they were as bad as Glenn Beck before. He was just anti-Trump cringe.

I imagine some of their better talent will leave after awhile. I recognize a few of the more well known people on there. Steven Crowder, Gavin McCinnes, and Roaming Millennial. They also have that guy from Duck Dynasty.

But why would they want to associate themselves with Glenn Beck? It's all downhill from there.

A surprise move. Mark Levin and Glenn Beck are two very strange bedfellows, Levin has not been Beck's biggest fan to say the least. Smells like a pure business move, Michelle Malkin's walk-out is no doubt a symptom that reveals underlying discomfort of others within the CRTV umbrella.

I suspect Beck made Levin sweet deal, Beck's been trying to unload assets, to reduce staff, and to restructure to stay afloat because his empire has been shrinking.

Levin's model isn't something to sneeze at. He started this thing only a year or two ago, assembling his own video production studio and putting out only his own one-hour video show initially. And he's met with success and built it out from there. He did have his ongoing radio show to give it free promotion, that's a yuge advantage, but what he did was basically build out his own platform.

I saw Malkin parted ways with CRTV with this merger with a post on Gab. Very telling. Steyn left crtv when they screwed him over on funding. I think he won his lawsuit.

Beck's idiocy can be amusing. My favorite is him walking around a oval office replica set dressed like FDR. That or his crying about a kid fasting during the primaries for Cruz. His downfall started when he stood up against the Bundy ranch standoff calling for MLK like protests not violence and then went full cuck during the 2016 election. Anyone who takes him seriously is a fool or a lobster-cider cleanse fan.

Back when McInnes moved to CRTV is when I got it. Since then I’ve seen no return on that investment, and only been disappointed at the content and roster. Crowded lost any edge he had beforehand, and McInnes was practically neutered. Then again he went from a (((Levant))) to a (((Levin))), so he wasn’t too free to begin with. All the content is lazy, like they’ve won their prize so they are done fighting. It’s all the same stories and same talking points from different speakers. Want to hear how bad SJWs are from a young woman? An old man? A minority? It’s humorless and the best the speakers can bring in as far as guests is their fellow CRTV hosts. Suffice to say, I forgot I had a membership until this article. I already wasn’t going to renew, this Blaze merger further solidifies that choice.

You know? Once upon a not-very-long ago time, usetah be that "woke' meant those of us of the far / Alt Right who knew who ruled the place... Just like "red" usetah be for the libs-dem-progs-commies... HOW did it happen that these got switched? I had to start answering folks who mentioned it with "blue wave -- that's the Right, right?"

Like we took over fake news and deplorable -- HOW did we lose woke and blue?

When fraud and cuckery run loose, the chaos may burn us all, but there is a path to safety if we can find that balance, that archetypal fulcrum that can lever us to a new world. Remember that a lever is a triangle, and the triangle is the simplest of instruments that points like an arrow through the "Blaze" to a more perfect order.

"Levin's model isn't something to sneeze at. He started this thing only a year or two ago, assembling his own video production studio and putting out only his own one-hour video show initially. And he's met with success and built it out from there."

Give it a rest, he is constantly propped up by Globalist money. When he starts to fail, as he says really stupid Globalist crap that even the dumb begin to pick up on and leave, the Globalists buy tens of thousands of one of his poorly written books, and give him some BS "Conservative Award." Then they will pay someone like Rush, who is much smarter, so some of. Rush's audience to start listening to this fool again.

Just know that if you are alt-Right, none of these people will come close to any real Truth or holding up Christian Values or Western Civilization. Some like Steyn or even Rush will sometimes come close to at least supporting PDJT, and even building the Wall, and saying good things about Nationalism, but there's a huge gap in where they are willing to go towards anything within a mile of being Red-Pilled.

These people are all still GATEKEEPERS. I know that most here know this, but it's worth saying for people who do not know this.

This reminds me of Civic Nationalists who claim that "it's possible to convince 92% of blacks and 75% of Latinos to vote Republican, the problem is merely that we are not reaching enough people with our message".You know, the type of people who believe that Democrats are the real racists. The same people who deny Race-Realism and think that somehow, even with rapid demographic change, our western values will survive because only ideology matters."I don't care about the browning of America" -Ben Shapiro

They have already failed. Time to re-evaluate your views, time upgrade to the next level, time to move along.

Steven Crowder, ever chummy with Shapiro and Peterson, says he's on medical sabbatical until the new year due to "shoulder pain" and/or "stress caused by overworking."

Owen Benjamin, who's hopped off the Shapiro/Peterson bandwagon, has been a recurring guest on "Louder With Crowder" and has hosted one of episode of the show since Crowder went on vacay.

I think it's possible that some of Crower's stress may be because he's beginning to see through Shapiro and Peterson, but he feels torn because Shapiro was kind to him once (giving him some legal advice regarding a contract) and he's enthusiastically interviewed Peterson multiple times and promoted his '12 Rules for Life'. Uncomfortable and embarrassing! Perhaps if he sees through Shapiro and Peterson, he'll start to see through his own civic nationalism, but that would be a very bitter pill for Crowder to swallow.

"And this really puts Levin lower on my toleration list (not that he was that high on it to begin with). I distinctly remember him taking shots at Cheeto Jesus for legitimate reasons. And now they're partnering up? Both he and Beck must really be desperate for cash to try something like this."

I was listening to him tonight because he's the only commentator not going on incessantly about Bush. He said he was wrong about Trump, that Trump has wildly outperformed what Levin thought he was capable of, and that no one else who ran in 2016 ---no one--- fights like Trump, could fight like Trump. Levin must practice eating crow at home so he can sound convincing on air.

I found it interesting that Malkin bailed right away. She has a tad more credibility with me than other female commentators as she is actually a wife who has been married to her only husband a long time now and she is a mother with two kids. Skin in the game.

40. Sam Sutherland December 05, 2018 8:17 PMPerhaps if he sees through Shapiro and Peterson, he'll start to see through his own civic nationalism, but that would be a very bitter pill for Crowder to swallow.

Crowder was born in Grosse Pointe but raised in Quebec. i doubt very much that he's ever going to give up on CivNat.

"And this really puts Levin lower on my toleration list (not that he was that high on it to begin with). I distinctly remember him taking shots at Cheeto Jesus for legitimate reasons. And now they're partnering up? Both he and Beck must really be desperate for cash to try something like this."

OR extremely desperate to maintain even the illusion of relevance.

The internet is forever, but you can change and renounce previous views if you're honest. Vox has done it and maintained a large readership. The pursuit of truth takes you down sometimes dangerous and difficult paths - but it is worth it. If you don't serve truth, you serve lies. When you know you're not right anymore, you must change or you are deliberately following Satan. Ignorance is one thing, but willful continuation of a lie destroys the soul. Some people would rather lose their souls than appear to have made a mistake. That's where many of these talking heads are.

SemiSpook37 wrote:And this really puts Levin lower on my toleration list (not that he was that high on it to begin with). I distinctly remember him taking shots at Cheeto Jesus for legitimate reasons. And now they're partnering up? Both he and Beck must really be desperate for cash to try something like this.I knew all I needed to know about him when I read the actual text of the "Levin Amendments": shit only a lawyer would love, not meant to be read/understood by the average man. Contrast with these.

JAG wrote:Yep, tuned out Levin for good when he tried to get Hillary elected. His pro Trump act is because he knows he lost a sizable chunk of his audience. He was butt-hurt because he was a Ted Cruz supporter.I think it's because Cruz is also a slimeball lawyer.

Ben Shapiro and Glenn Beck's careers should've ended with Trump's election. It says something very negative about the American Right that they took these NeverTrumpers back. These are usually the same morons who won't do boycotts and worship any "muh identity politics" liberal who will throw them a few scraps of validation. The great uncucking is not even half-complete.

pyrrhus wrote:Levin's proposed Amendments were risible...As if words on paper have stopped the unscrupulous from trashing American Government ever since Marbury vs Madison.

If Jefferson had known where Marbury vs Madison was going to lead America, he would have arrested the entire Supreme Court and tried them for treason.To be fair to the Supreme Court, the decision says the opposite of what is claimed. (The TL;DR is "If congress passes a law contrary to the Constitution, then it is not valid because otherwise would invalidate having a Constitution altogether.")

>I knew all I needed to know about him when I read the actual text of the "Levin Amendments": shit only a lawyer would love, not meant to be read/understood by the average man. Contrast with these.<

Your alternative sucks as bad as Levin's original proposal. If you want to do a Conv. of the States you have to KISS. A COS is a populist uprising. To do a populist uprising using COS, which requires motivating 10's of millions in 40 States to contact their State Reps/Dels and/or Senators about a/one problem, this mass of people need to be focused on one problem.

For example: the National Debt. A graph of this debt,over the last 50 years, readily shows its/it's exponential nature. A solution would be a COS modifying US Constitution Article I Section 8 from:

Article 1, Section 8Clause 2: To borrow Money on the credit of the United States;

To:

Article 1, Section 8Clause 2: To borrow Money on the credit of the United States>, with the approval of 3/4 State Legislatures<;

The "formal" COS should be 5 days in Fargo in February at the Comfort Inn ballroom.

Caught Levin on the radio for the first time in years a few weeks ago, but that wasn't any surprise (shit radio programming is forever - or seems like it). What was surprising was his newfound "warmth" and "charm" - Levin's most notable characteristic has always been his unbridled, petty viciousness, like a dyspeptic merchant scowling in front of his failing enterprise with a GOING OUT OF BUSINESS - PRICES TRIPLED TO PUNISH YOU FOR NOT SHOPPING HERE sign in the window.

I couldn't figure out where this barely-plausible fuzzy populism (even when trying to be gracious to callers, the old venom still dripped out) had come from, or why; and then he took a moment to pitch CRTV, addressing it to "my friends", and the mystery was solved.

Speaking of OT and the internet always wins, the leader of the official opposition in Canada, cuckservative, belatedly took a strong position and got overwhelming internet support on House member Rempel's channel.

He opposed Canada signing the UN Immigration agreement.

The comments include enthusiasm for ending legal immigration, and I saw a "Sink the Ships" reference with a link, and it wasn't from me, which is more likely than somebody else doing it.

@60, That's likely because Maxime Bernier the leader of the new upstart Populist party took the same stance several weeks ago and they are now bleeding off some CPC support. Even at just 4% right now the PPC could cost the CPC a chance at winning.

I don't trust Scheer for the life of me, not only is he a cuckservative but he strikes me as a pillock as well.

Al From Bay Shore wrote:Blaze, the network that participated in the attempt to present the idea that MLK, a socialist, was a Republican. This is the kinda "ish" that makes me shake my head at Conservativism Inc.

You must be fairly young. I can remember when the only Republicans in the South were black or carpetbaggers from the North. The "conservative" party was the Democrat Party, which was entirely white. I realize how difficult it is to imagine today, but it was true during my lifetime....the majority of Republican voters in the South were black. Granted that is not the case today, but anyone saying MLK was a Republican at the time would not even be remarkable.

There are still some of the older blacks who are still Republican in the South. They consider themselves "Log Cabin" or "Lincoln" Republicans and it is a tradition that reaches back to the Reconstruction after the Civil War.

If there is a chance to save the nation without it plunging into chaos or war, that chance should be taken. That's why I thought Mark Levin's Liberty Amendments had a fundamentally noble character to them. Sure, they had all the nobility and all the pathos of Don Quixote because they were never going to work. If the Convention of States did not work in the 1850s that's a message to you that such a convention is never going to work. Nevertheless, what Mark put together was an attempt to save the country using the means provided by the Constitution to do it. His effort simply had to be tried. Also and importantly, implicit in any such effort is the realization that we're on a course toward ruin and that's no little thing when you find someone else who also can see this and wants to do something about it.

Levin is not a Never Trumper. Even though he was among the vocal of the Cruzlims when that fight was over he swung to Trump. Levin has also been on point and shown leadership in the efforts against what he rightfully considers the unconstitutional and abusive special counsel, Robert Mueller.

His major area of disagreement with Trump is over trade, Mark is very orthodox on it. But even so he has admitted that the very tariffs he spoke out strongly against have had a strong positive effect as a negotiating weapon and things have gone better than he imagined.

He's mistaken on trade. He's also mistaken to get too close to the lunatic Glenn Beck. Maybe he's mistaken in other ways I don't know about. So he's not a perfect ally and never was. But he's not an enemy either as I see it. He's not in the Ben Shapiro, Jonah Goldberg, Bill Kristol-type group by any means.

No kidding. The mailman didn't even come by yesterday. I tuned into a sports news show and got a segment on the greatness of GHWB, war hero. Nauseating stuff, and bizarre if you're old enough to remember how people saw him during his presidency. I understand not speaking ill of the dead, but it's like people are talking about a different person entirely.

Levin did not "swing to Trump" right after Trump won the nomination. He continued to be a sour assed loser, constantly bitching about Trump. It was only after his audience started to abandon him that he got his mind right.

D. wrote:Your alternative sucks as bad as Levin's original proposal. If you want to do a Conv. of the States you have to KISS. A COS is a populist uprising. To do a populist uprising using COS, which requires motivating 10's of millions in 40 States to contact their State Reps/Dels and/or Senators about a/one problem, this mass of people need to be focused on one problem.How are mine just as bad?

Also, I'm not particularly interested in the CoS, compared/opposed to the actual amendments, if I had won my bid for my State's Senate seat I would have introduced them myself. (I think it would be particularly illuminating to see congress's reaction to limiting the taxing authority, and in a manner where violation of the amendment means personal loss for the government-agent doing so.)

That's not the problem. The problem is when the court declares itself to be the sole and final arbiter of what is Constitutional.There's a solution for that: this. (Or Congress removing them, but Congress is all too willing to point fingers at the other branches and say "it's not our fault" while patting themselves on the back over pulling a fast one.)